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So, you want to catch ’em all, huh?

Pokémon Go has swept the nation, and the app has broken records for the most downloads in the first week of release. All over the country, people are swarming, gathering, and all around going nuts, playing this interactive game.

Since we’re a data analytics website, and because we’re often cited as the ‘go to’ place for regional infotainment, we thought it was our duty to be as helpful as we can for Ohioans who want to have the inside scoop as to where they should go if they want to dominate this addicting game.

So, grab your avatars, cell phones and your Poké Balls as we uncover the truly best places in Ohio in which to find the most Pokémon, based on data.

After analyzing every place in Ohio, here is our list of the best places to catch Pokémon in the Buckeye State:

Newburgh Heights

Walton Hills

Glendale

Silver Lake

Navarre

Gates Mills

Hebron

Evendale

Lakemore

New Miami

As you might note, these are all smaller suburbs of major cities in Ohio. That’s because in smaller cities, there are a higher number of places per capita where Pokémon are traditionally found. Meaning you’ll find more Pokémon in a much smaller area. When you read the analysis below, this will all make sense. Trust us.

We also ranked the larger cities in Ohio for Pokémon catching. More on that later.

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How do you decide where the best place is to catch Pokémon?

In order to rank the best places in Ohio in which to catch ’em all, we had to determine which cities, towns and villages in Ohio have the most places where Pokémon are located.

So we scraped the internet for those criteria, and it spit out the answer. Like magic.

How we crunched the numbers

We threw a lot of criteria at this one in order to get the best, most complete results possible. Using Google Maps, this is the criteria we used:

Number of parks per capita

Number of museums per capita

Number of churches per capita

Number of memorials and public gathering places per capita

If you’d like to see the complete list of cities, scroll to the bottom of this post to see a chart of the top cities.

Two notes: When measuring the locations listed above, we measured the locations within a short drive of the center of each city or village in Ohio.

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1. Newburgh Heights

This fairy type was spotted in someone’s backyard in Newburgh Heights playing with her dog.

Population: 2,100

Suburb of: ClevelandParks per capita: 1st in OhioMuseums per capita: 1st in OhioChurches per capita: 1st in OhioPublic gathering places per capita: 1st in Ohio

2. Walton Hills

Playing a game was interrupted by a Nidoqueen in Walton Hills.

Population: 2,272

Suburb of: ClevelandParks per capita: 4th in OhioMuseums per capita: 2nd in OhioChurches per capita: 16th in OhioPublic gathering places per capita: 3rd in Ohio